Spiritual Mutt

My lovely wife and I take part in a Zoom call every Wednesday night based on the book Be The Bridge. It's a small group and we're in...

About a year ago, a comment was dropped into one of my posts. Unfortunately, I didn't see it until around December. It was an inquiry in...

I used to think the story of The Golden Calf was just that, a story, more symbolic than real. But the events of the past several years have ...

Peter Gabriel has released an update of his anthem 'Biko' through Playing For Change. It is, quite simply, stunning. It literally br...

Had an interesting experience this morning, one I was quite unprepared for and thus worthy of jotting down.  At work this Saturday morning (...

I've decided to, after multiple attempts, read through Augustine's Confessions (and, likely, City of God ). My entire reading librar...

I went to my first Vespers service at a local Orthodox church. It was small, only about seven people in attendance. I had to navigate my way...

I'm done. I have officially checked out of contemporary Christianity. Just, done. I've been fighting this for many years, long befor...

Having spent time in and still impacted by my time in a Oneness Pentecostal Church, I finally found some resolve this day of Easter.  F...

One of my biggest regrets, perhaps my only real regret, was not marking up the atlas I carried (remember, this was before smartphones) and,...

Just to put this out there.  In October, we took a week's vacation, the closure of a 25 year journey in my life, to California, inc...

Things are not where I'd like them to be right now on many fronts. It's on thing when circumstances or situations aren't where ...

My daughter, along with her three kids, spent the week with us last week. Let's just say that a frantic phone call early Sunday morning...

So why can't I make the leap? Grandkids? Wife? Don't feel like dealing with the evangelicals/charismatics in the family? Not up to ...

My wife and I got into a, uh, discussion the other night about the statement, often well intended, that 'everything happens for a reaso...

My wife and I were fortunate enough to go on a dream vacation in February/March of 2015 to Bristol, England and Lille, France. We trave...

25 years ago I had a 'peak' experience - substance free - at the top of Yosemite Falls. After several months on the road and 26 yea...

Just when I thought I couldn't take another day, I had a total and complete meltdown letting the 'F' bombs fly at will. While t...

God will allow us to wander and stray on our own and we can cruise along loosely thinking we're good until something happens. Our 1...

Work done on the sinkhole and the downspouts on the side of the house.  Picking up some documents today for the other issue in play, up...